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Yikes! New Poll Finds Only 36% of US Adults Believe George Floyd Was Murdered by Minneapolis Police Officer
Gateway Pundit ^ | 3/10/21

Posted on 03/10/2021 8:07:58 AM PST by Altura Ct.

What a difference a year makes — and two billion dollars in destroyed property by leftist rioters!

Jury selection began this week in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin over the May 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

A new USA Today/Ipsos Poll found that today only 36% believe George Floyd’s death was murder — that number is down from 60% last year.

As Jack Posobiec reported the coroner’s report found George Floyd suffered no life threatening injuries. He was high on drugs at the time.

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on George Floyd’s death. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/trial-next-week-will-jury-find-george-floyd-died-drug-overdose-not-approved-minneapolis-police-procedure/

USA Today reported:

Americans’ trust in the Black Lives Matter movement has fallen and their faith in local law enforcement has risen since protests demanding social justice swept the nation last year, according to an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll.

The debate over the intersection of racism and policing will be in the spotlight again as jury selection opens Monday in the Minneapolis trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, which sparked nationwide marches last year.

The survey finds complicated and shifting views about Chauvin’s actions and broader questions of race. On many issues, there is a chasm in the perspective between Black people and white people.

Last June, 60% in a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll described Floyd’s death as murder; that percentage has now dropped by double digits to 36%. Uncertainty has grown about how to characterize the incident, caught on video, when Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck and ignored his protests that he couldn’t breathe. Last year, 4% said they didn’t know how to describe it; that number has climbed to 17%.


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Couple all that ^^ with the fact that most of the country has been in some form of "lock down" for a year, and most of the country understands the level of in our faces vote fraud that was allowed to happen in 2020, and this could be a powder keg year like one we haven't seen in over 150 years.

A few thousands NG troops in D.C. will look like a platoon size weekend training excursion compared to what they will likely call up.

41 posted on 03/10/2021 9:41:53 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: usconservative

“ Prediction: Guilty because the jury is afraid of getting fixed if they don’t and because they don’t want to be deemed racists and ...

Probably, but there will absolutely be riots no matter what happens


42 posted on 03/10/2021 9:48:13 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: dsrtsage
I always scratch my head when people talk about how much better race relations were before Obama. Sometime a picture IS worth a thousand words.
43 posted on 03/10/2021 9:48:40 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

Riot Season coming early this year.


44 posted on 03/10/2021 9:54:49 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (It's a lie. It's all lies. Use every opportunity to poison their data. )
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To: Little Ray
A fair trial? In our modern Court system? In Minnesota?

Excuse me...

*BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA*

Erm... Sorry about that.

45 posted on 03/10/2021 10:03:33 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Altura Ct.

Would like to see the number broken down by age. The under 21 crowd likely still believes whereas those over 30 know he was moments away from suicide from drugs.


46 posted on 03/10/2021 10:18:46 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, Covid-19 or Gates and Fauci's mRNA-1273 Moderna vax?)
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To: Altura Ct.
Polls are NOT news...

I've not been polled in freaking 40 years...

47 posted on 03/10/2021 10:20:15 AM PST by Osage Orange (TRUMP!!!)
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To: sasquatch

Sign language...........


48 posted on 03/10/2021 10:22:26 AM PST by Osage Orange (TRUMP!!!)
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To: Phillyred
No.

Race relations were set back when Obama came on the scene.

He had the BEST opportunity to help in race relations.. and BLEW it. Caused them to be totally worse.

Barry is a asshole gay jackass....

Always will be...always has been....

49 posted on 03/10/2021 10:27:13 AM PST by Osage Orange (TRUMP!!!)
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To: Altura Ct.

Took me a second. O.J. verdict reactions, right?


50 posted on 03/10/2021 10:46:28 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Osage Orange

Barry knows that keeping Blacks feel like they are victims is good for his agenda. He purposely tried to make race relations worse. It motivates his people to come out and vote.


51 posted on 03/10/2021 10:49:06 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: IYAS9YAS

Yes


52 posted on 03/10/2021 11:02:11 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: I want the USA back

It wasn’t even negligence.

The officer may not be a nice guy, but he did nothing to kill that bug and med help was on the way.


53 posted on 03/10/2021 11:30:02 AM PST by Gator113 ( LIVE AMMO MATTERS~~Remember Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian.)
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To: caww

Indeed, like the 3 black teens they side with over the rape accusations from that white woman in New York.


54 posted on 03/10/2021 1:40:35 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Little Ray

Well, a LEO told me that one should not kneel on a handcuffed person’s neck, but it was certainly not murder, and it was the OD that ultimately cost Floyd his life.

And there was no way the poor rookies were going to question a senior, experienced officer in a tense situation. They didn’t do anything wrong.


55 posted on 03/10/2021 1:42:46 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ("War is the health of the state." Randolph Bourne)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Unfortunately their cultural history doesn’t exactly give reasons to believe or trust.....like politicians there’s a pattern.


56 posted on 03/10/2021 1:44:12 PM PST by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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